A framework for community development
IT IS A common weakness among government
agencies to have programs that do not have projects, or conversely to have
projects that are not derived from...
Empowering villages
IT’S A COMMON story always told, about
national economies that are growing, and yet the benefits of economic growth do
not trickle down to the village...
Levels of anti-poverty actions
Global war against poverty
I think that it would be correct to say that poverty alleviation
is a short term task; that poverty reduction is a...
Framework for disaster response and nat’l dev’t
IT IS ALREADY a scientific fact that the
Philippines is disaster-prone, and that a natural disaster is bound to happen
sooner or later. It is only...
Media responsibility and political maturity
AS THE SAYING goes, “art is the
reflection of society”.
But what if the actual reality is the
other way around?
What if our society now...
Local rehabilitation and redevelopment
REHABILITATION and redevelopment are two
twin objectives that should never be separated from each other.
The first requirement of course is to
recognize that these are...
Emergency warning broadcasts
SOME SEVEN years ago, the damage
caused by super typhoon “Yolanda” become a wakeup call for our country, and it
showed us what was lacking or...
Small businesses
AS WE SEE vivid images of super
typhoons devastating our islands, we should also be reminded of the very strong
economic storms that are already hitting...
Electronic commerce and human dev’t
THE HUMAN
Development Index (HDI) measures life expectancy, adult literacy and income
sufficiency.
Roughly
translated, healthcare is the means towards longer life expectancy, public
education is the means...
Localizing development measures
THE HUMAN Development Index (HDI) is a
composite statistic to rank countries into four tiers of human development,
namely low, medium, high and very high. The...